Apparatus for dyeing



- UNITED sTATESi PATENT oEEioE.

EDWARD BRIERLEY, or LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

, two end frames A, B, are used, each of APPARATUS FOR DYEING.

Specication of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, EDWARD BRIERLEY, late of England, but now of Lowell,in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful Process of Dyeing Cloth in Fancy Patterns; and I dohereby declare t-hat the same is fully described and represented in thefollowing descri tion and accompanying draw? ings, letters, Egures, andreferences thereof.

My process is particularly applicable to producing stripes or figures ofvarious colors 1n cloth. It diieres essentially from the usual practiceof producing such figures b imprinting them on the surface of the clotlias by my method they are dyed into and through t-he cloth during theprocess of dyemg it. Y i

In order to illustrate my mode of proceed-I ing I will now explain itsapplication to the. production of striped goods.

Of the drawings above mentioned, Figure l represents a longitudinal andvertical sec-v tion of one of my` dyeing frames for dyeing, stripedgoods. ig. 2, is a transverse sec-I tion of it. Fig. 3, is an end viewof it. Fig. 4, is a side elevation. Fig. 5, is atop view.`

In the said drawings, a, b, c, d, are plates of zinc or other propermaterial, each, excepting the two outer ones, having several strips orpieces of wood e, e, e, 8de, affixed to both sides of it, and parallelto one another as seen in Figs. 1, 2, and 6 the latter figure being madeto exhibit the said strips as disposed at equal distances asunder andparallel to each other. The outer plates have said strips aixed to onlyone of their surfaces. When used these plates are disposed so as tobring their parallel strips together, or with respect to oneanotheressentially as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. In connection with the series ofplates and Strips the said frames being composed of two parallel bars f,f, and a series of connecting bars g, g, g, &c, extending-from one tothe other and placed respectively at the same distances apart at whichthe parallel bars or strips e, e, &c, of each plate a, b, o, ci, areremoved. These frames when used lare pressed against the strips e, e, e,and so that each vertical rangeof said strips abut being covered with'a/strip of caoutchouc, as seen. at k, la, la, &c. v

The piece of cloth to be dyed in stripes is first laid between thecontiguous strips 6,932, dated December 11, 1849.

of the two plates a and b, yas seen by the blue line at the line Z.Next, it is carried around the ends of the strips of ,the plate b, asSeen at m, thence over and upon the strips o-n the upper surface of theplate b. This being done, the plate c, is placed upon the cloth in vsuchmanner that its lower series of strips e, e, e, may rest upon it andhave each strip directly over a strip of the plate below, the piece ofcloth being between the strips as seen at n. Next, the cloth is carrieup against the ends of the strips of the plate c as seen at o, thenceover and upon the upper strips of said` plate as seen at p, and receivesuponit the plate d, and its strips. This being eected the end frames A,B, are to be ap lied so as to bring their strips of rubber against thecloth wherever it p-resses against or in contact with the ends of thestrips e, e. The whole series of horizontal and vertical frames is nextto be confined down upon the cloth, or forced firmly together by meansof Screw clamps or other suitable contrivances, applied to them withsuch force and in such manner as toaso compress thecloth between thestrips immediately above and below it, as to prevenlt the dlyeing color,when the frame and cloth is immersed in the dye vat from penetratingthose parts of the cloth pinched between the strips, although atthe sametime allowing the coloring liquid to have free access to the remainingparts of the cloth- All this being done the dyeing frame p-rovided withcloth is to be immersed in a dye vat charged withl the color we maydesire to produce in stripes longitudinally on the piece of goods, andafter it has remained therein a proper time for the color to have doneits oiice itis to be removed, and so placed that the extraneous liquidmay run off or be evaporated, so as to dry the cloth on removal of thepiece of cloth from the frames it will be found to have been dyed inparallel stripes running longitudinally in it.

- The next part of the process is to produce stripes transversel of theothers. This iS effected by arranglng the cloth transversely upon theframes or winding it between them at'right angles to the direction inwhich' it was before wound, the same being as seenat 1', in Fig. 2, itbeing understood that where it is carried around the bars or strips e',e2, and e3, e4, as seen at s or s2, the depth of the vtwo strips e ande2 or e3 and e* iny, so

cluding the thickness of their connecting plate or c 'should be justequal to the width of one of the stripes. This when the frame is dippedinto the vat roduces a stripe at s and s2. On the who e piece of clothbeing thus laid between the sections or composing the dyeing frame theyare clamped together and afterwards immersed in the dye vat containingthe color which flofpenetrating those parts unprotected by the .str1pee, e, thus forms stripes across those `previously roduced. In thismanner, shawls, han kerchiefs or many other articles may be dyed instripes or fancy patterne the main principle being by means of boardssuitably cut to protect those parts .thereof which are not to becolored, while those parts which are to be dyed are left .free for theliquid to penetrate on to them.

What I claim as my invention is,

The above-specified mode or process of `producing either stripes orfancy patterns on or in cloth or fabrices of various kinds thesameconsisting in the employment of :I .ene or more dye vats and a dyeingframe.,y

.so constructed as to prevent the dyeing lliquid from penetrating thoseportions of ,the cloth which we may not desire to color l.and at thesame time allow the coloring liquid tol freely come in contact with there- :mainder or those which it may be desirable 'lto color, allsubstantially as specified. And as auxiliary thereto I claim theemployment of the vertical fra-mes A, B, in connection @,Withthe maindye frame i'n manner and for the pur se of protecting from contact withdyeing iquid those parts'of the cloth which may be strained directlyover, against or on the ends of the horizontal strips of the main dyeframe as set forth.

. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature this twentyeighth day of May A.' D. 1849. y

i EDWARD BRIERLEY. Witnesses: S. B. CLARK,

ANDREW J. CAss.

Disclaimer.

State of Massachusetts, county of Middlesex, ss.

'On this twenty eighth day of May A. D. 1849, personally appeared beforeme the above named Edward Brierley and made oath that he does verilybelieve himself to be the original and first inventor of theimprovements herein above s ecified, that he does not know or believe te same to have ever before been known or used (that is before hisinvention thereof), land that he is a subject of Great Britain but hasresided the year preceding in the United States of America and made oathof intention to become a citizen of the same.

' S. A. BROWN,

Justice of the Peace.

To the Commissioner of Patents The petition of JOHN HoLT, of Lowell inthe county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, respectfullyrepresents that he has by an assignment duly recorded in the PatentOffice become the owner of all the right, title, and interest within theUnited States of America of Edward Brierley of Lowell, Massachusetts, inand to a certain improvement in apparatus for dyeing, (except a licenseoriginally granted to James Monarch and by him transferred to Edward N.Mason to use said improvement for five years from March 28th, A. D.1850,) for which improvement Letters Patent of the United States weregranted to said Edward Brierley dated the eleventh day of December A. D.1849: that he has reason to believe that through inadvertence andmistake the claim made in the specification of said Letters Patent istoo broad, including that of which the patentee was not the rstinventor.

Your petitioner therefore hereby enters his disclaimer to that part ofthe claim in the aforementioned specification whereb isclaimed anyparticular apparatus for yeiriig with liquid dyeing material by stoppingo or excluding the same from certain portions of the cloth according tothe design while it has free access to the other parts of the clothindependent of the vertical frames A, B as a part of said apparatus:meaning however still to claim the Inode of applying .said principle bymeans of the aparatus with the end frames A, B, as specied in saidLetters Patent: which discla1mer is to operate to the extent of theinterest in said Letters Patent vested in your petitioner, who has paidten dollars into Treasury of t-he United States agreeably to therequirements of the act of Congress in that case made and provided. i

JOHN HOLT.

VVit-nesses F. A, BROOKS, J. M. PINKERTON.-

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